So I am standing in the dining room talking with my wife when I hear what sounds like the dog peeing. That’s a sound you just can’t forget after having a puppy that does it regularly.. of course that was a few years ago.
Anyway, I look for the dog and realize that he is outside. So what is this sound of water streaming on the floor? Why it’s the air conditioner which resides in the attic. Water is pouring in through the intake vent in the ceiling.
I crawl into the hot attic to see what’s wrong and find that the condensation from the machine is overflowing. Normally, this excess water would get caught by a back-up pan. But that didn’t work too well either, so instead it’s pouring onto my ceiling. The good part of all this is that the water had someplace to go… out of the ceiling and onto me floor. If the water had gotten stuck up there, I’d be writing about how I had to replace the ceiling this weekend.
Turns out the piping that drains the excess condensation was plugged. Just enough to overflow onto the secondary drip pan. The drip pan was resting on the insulation which compressed from the weight of the water only on one corner. Thus the water there flowed out onto the ceiling.
Still, with all these little things, I’m still glad I own a house. I don’t have to call someone else to fix what goes wrong and hope they come to fix it.
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